Double Citizenship under Indian laws and Voting Rights for OCIs resident in India: A Constitutional Analysis – Naren Thappeta and Mallika Sen In the late 1940s and 1950s, most of the world was just coming out of and recovering from the Second World War. Suspicions between nations ran high as the world eased into the […]Continue reading

The Retroactive Effect of Statutory Amendments: Assessing The Impact of Recent Amendments to the Specific Relief Act, 1963 – Nigam Nuggehalli A statute, unlike other forms of legal regulation, can be amended if the legislature is of the opinion that the statute is not serving its purpose. A statutory provision can be added to, subtracted […]Continue reading

Tampon Tax Be Gone: What the US Can Learn from India’s #LahuKaLagaan Repeal (Part II/II) -Dr. Bridget Crawford In this post, I will discuss how taxation of tampons may constitute gender discrimination and possibly amount to a human rights violation. I will also be discussing how disparate treatment in taxation is made visible in this situation and […]Continue reading

Tampon Tax Be Gone: What the US Can Learn from India’s #LahuKaLagaan Repeal (Part I/II) -Dr. Bridget J. Crawford The United States has much to learn from India, including lessons about the relationship between taxation and gender equity. In June, 2018, India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council agreed to eliminate the 12 percent tax […]Continue reading

GST – Levy of Compensation Cess & the Aspect Theory- Some Musings -Karthik Sundaram The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (‘GST’) regime is a watershed event in the history of indirect taxation in India. This has been facilitated by many important changes in the Constitution of India. The power to levy GST flows directly […]Continue reading

Article 22(3): A Constitutional Paradox? -Abhinav Sekhri Of late, the transformative nature and potential of the Indian Constitution has been placed under the spotlight thanks to attention from both scholars and courts. The contours of this argument are contested, but according to most versions, the Constitution is an instrument designed to realise an India where […]Continue reading

Marriage, Morals, and the Constitution: Joseph Shine v. Union of India – Part II/II – Thulasi K. Raj and Maitreyi Hegde In this part, we will be highlighting how the decision in Joseph Shine is deficient in its structural analysis on the right to privacy. Privacy and evaluative tools An important argument of the Petitioner revolved around how the […]Continue reading

Marriage, Morals, and the Constitution: Joseph Shine v. Union of India – Part I/II -Thulasi K. Raj and Maitreyi Hegde The judgment of the Supreme Court in Joseph Shine v. Union of India striking down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 198(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure is monumental for reasons more than […]Continue reading

The Politics of the Voice Vote: Why the 2018 Trafficking Bill is cause for Worry – Part III/III – Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran In this third, and final, part to the series on the Anti-Trafficking Bill, 2018, I address three concerns. The first, a critique of the ‘raid, rescue and rehabilitate’ model used by the Bill. […]Continue reading

The Politics of the Voice Vote: Why the 2018 Trafficking Bill is cause for Worry – Part II/III -Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran In this second part of the series on the Anti-Trafficking Bill, 2018, I shall deal exclusively with how the Bill departs from the core principles of Criminal Law and falls short of providing safeguards. […]Continue reading